Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
Skip · Shooter · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $1.04.
- Length
- 5.9h 18.5h to 100%
- Value
- $0.18/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 307 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Race against time and terrorism as a member of the elite counter terrorist team in this all-out first person shooter. Your duty is to hunt down a terrorist overlord carrying a nuclear device before untold disaster is unleashed.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 64 MB Windows XP compatible,, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 92 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.04 at 85 percent off still sits 7 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 47 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, ARMA: Gold Edition ($9.99, scores 46) beats it on value, while it beats Black Squad (free, scores 44).
More about Shadow Ops: Red Mercury
The press gave it 61; the people who bought it give it 77 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
5.9 hours to finish it, 19 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 23:57 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I remember 2004 as a kid. I entered blockbuster. The smell of all the cases, seeing all the XBOX games I could rent. It was a golden age of gaming, where developers were passionate, games were made with effort and fully. No microtransactions, or endless DLC. Rented this game, and I couldn't get past the first level at the time. Jump 20+ years to now. To my amazement and happiness this game was on steam. Nabbed it...
2 more reviews
This game is a guilty pleasure of mine. Got the game from a pc game magazine back then. When i saw it on STEAM i had to buy and play it.
Little rough around the edges but it's still enjoyable. Feels like an early version of CoD
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/286770/shadow-ops-red-mercuryReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.